>> I didn't quite understand Martin's comments about "not normalised" ->> presumably this is some mathematical argument, but what does this actually>> mean?>>Not mathematics. It's from physics. Very trivial physics, basic scool>indeed.>If you try to calculate some weightning>factors which involve different units (in this case mostly seconds and>bits)>then you will have to make sure tha those units get factorized out.>Rik is just throwing the absolute values together...

Understood - my Physics courses covered this as well, but not using theword "normalise".

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